Analysis of 2012

public employee

salary database

By Robert Schussel, Ph.D

1/13/14

Purpose

To provide a detailed analysis of selected cities in the 2012 California Public Employee salary database to determine average wage of City of Vallejo employees compared to other city employees in the state.

Vallejo Employees STILL Rank Near

Top

in Wages for State According to Comptroller

1/10/14

By Marc Garman

According to figures released by California State Comptroller, Vallejo employees are ranked as having the fifth highest wages in the state based on 2012 figures. Employees of our humble City, with it's history of bankruptcy and blue collar roots beat out swanky high end communities such as Hillsborough, Los Gatos and Tiburon as well as our big neighbor San Francisco for wages. In fact, the first city in Solano County to appear on the list is Vacaville on page 5 followed by Fairfield on page 14. At first blush, the ratio of employees per resident seems to indicate what we pretty much have known: We are understaffed, but we pay a lot for the few.

The doctrine of “Cut the staff as much as you want, we wanna be paid.” has clearly been an effective tool. LINK

The ranking of the top 5 highest employee wage cities in California is as follows:

1. Vernon

2. Hayward

3. Sand City

4. Los Angeles

5. Vallejo

Scandal riddled Vernon with a population of 121 residents and Sand City with 338 residents are outliers with little impact overall due to their extremely small size.

See the data on the Comptroller's website HERE

See the breakdown for Vallejo HERE

JumpStart Faithful Booted from

Power in Local Democratic Club

Remarks from a departing Vice-Mayor

The End of the Beginning

By Stephanie Gomes

1/8/14

Before I begin, let me thank first and foremost my family, for understanding my absences and single-minded preoccupation these past eight years. I’d like to dedicate my two terms to my mom, who passed away one year ago this month. She taught me to be a strong and independent woman and to stand up and fight injustice, to use my strong voice to speak for those who didn’t have a voice, or whose voices weren’t so strong. Mom was was at every election night party, every swearing-in, and if she could be, she would be here with me tonight to walk up that isle and out the chamber doors. I think she’d be dancing up that isle, actually, as she wanted me to be done with this work so badly. Well mom, I’m done!